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Situation ethics flies under the banner of the new morality. These two names are used interchangeably to designate this approach to morals. Purposely, however, we have chosen to use the term situation ethics. There are two reasons for this preference. The first is that the name new morality is reall
General Information Some of you may not be familiar with the term “medical ethics” and as such not really understand what you are going to be discussing. Medical Ethics has to do with evaluating the appropriateness of using controversial medical procedures. These practices may include procedures li
THE GREAT REVERSAL, Ethics and the New Testament, by Allen Verhey; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1984; 246 pp., $13.95 (paper). (Reviewed by Prof. H. Hanko) It does not come as a surprise that Verhey, in his analysis of the ethics of the New Testament, adopts a higher critical approach, because h
Ethics are not limited to one sphere and not another but must be a means of willful conduct in all of life. Morals do not consist of an external right or wrong but come to fruition from a heart which is changed by the power of almighty God. God is the ethical, the holy, the righteous, and the powerf
April 2012 119 Christian Ethics Human Rights? The idea of human rights appeared in the context of the Ameri- can Revolution (George Washington-1732-1799; Thomas Jeffer- son-1743-1826; Alexander Hamilton-1757/1755-1804) and the French Revolution. But soon there was disagreement about what an inalien
In ethics, it is “any practice or form of conduct not included under the essential principles of morality, and which may therefore be left to be determined by custom or individual choice; the ethically indifferent.” We do not mean to imply by the term, however, that for the Christian there is an ar
Situation ethics or the new morality (really the old immorality) holds that nothing is right or wrong absolutely or objectively, but you have to first judge the situation in which a certain act takes place. And what governs people more and more today is this: Everything goes, as long as you don’t ge
2). How does the world regard these things? The best that the world had to offer, the Greek and Roman moralists and ethicists, regarded the whole field of morals and ethics as matters of perfect indifference. To them, a la Heraclitus, good and evil were relative terms. All moral conceptions were reg
Having completed our inquiry, let us now face the question: What is ethical authority; what may be the signification of the term juridical authority. If authority is taken to signify the right of rule accruing from a special outward calling or appointment, there is no such thing as ethical authorit
It is profoundly ethical and, thus, it is the bond that unites the ethically pure only. The first and great commandment concerns the love of God and the commandment to love our neighbor as our self is like unto it. Love is the unity of the communities of similar interests or sentiments that unites t